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Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
Mon Jun 20, 2016, 05:46 PM Jun 2016

Comic's party wins Italy mayoral races, eyes national power

Source: Associated Press

Comic's party wins Italy mayoral races, eyes national power

Frances D'emilio, Associated Press

Updated 10:41 am, Monday, June 20, 2016

ROME (AP) — An anti-establishment party founded by a comic has triumphed in Italian mayoral runoff elections, trouncing Premier Matteo Renzi's candidates in Rome and another key city and turning its sights Monday toward its next goal — national power.

The 5-Star Movement candidate in Rome, Virginia Raggi, a lawyer with a three-year stint as a city councilwoman, took 67.2 percent of the vote in a two-person runoff Sunday, becoming the corruption-stained capital city's first female mayor and, at 37, also its youngest.

Raggi promised to work to bring "legality and transparency" to Rome's City Hall, where prosecutors probing widespread corruption have found many municipal contracts were awarded without taking bids to political cronies and even a Mafia-like clique.

Another 5-Star candidate, Chiara Appendino, also a woman and even younger at 32, scored in Turin what could be the bigger embarrassment for Renzi, who also serves as Democratic Party leader. With 54.6 percent of the vote, Appendino defeated Mayor Piero Fassino, a veteran Democrat.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Comic-s-party-wins-Italy-mayoral-races-eyes-8312645.php

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Comic's party wins Italy mayoral races, eyes national power (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jun 2016 OP
I hope this is a good thing Astraea Jun 2016 #1

Astraea

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1. I hope this is a good thing
Mon Jun 20, 2016, 06:06 PM
Jun 2016

From what I understand they seem to be a center-left party. Not left enough for my tastes, but decent.

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